General Summary

The Shutdown Planner is responsible for planning the work that is to be executed in and long-term schedules. Additionally, the role looks to continuously improve the maintenance plans and strategies executed during these events and seek feedback to improve the quality of planning and for the shutdown.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Key Accountabilities)

• Enable the safe and efficient execution of shutdown asset strategies & maintenance work, by detailed job preparation
• Establish standard job plans for repetitive shutdown maintenance tasks and thereby foster standardization
• Ensure all improvements in the work execution process are clearly communicated and implemented
• Providing detailed job plans that insure safe and efficient execution of all Shutdown maintenance jobs
• Follow management of change process if new materials are required for job completion
• Managing the work notification and work order backlog by:
• Returning incomplete or poorly defined work notifications
• Reviewing backlog and planning list
• Grouping notifications together that can be planned and worked as a single order

• Coordinating with production to ensure job plans meet the timing requirements of production
• Developing or copying the work order job plan and clearly documenting required skill crafts, duration, specialty tools and necessary equipment
• Creating purchase order for necessary components
• Building the job plan library, including ensuring accurate plans exist for high-frequency jobs
• Continually updating job plans to ensure necessary changes or improvements are incorporated, and efficiencies are captured
• Forwarding completed “ready to schedule” job packages to the Scheduler
• Process all notifications through to a state of Planned for all work orders. 
• Execute planning of work orders by identifying priority identifiers such as Critical equipment, Statutory Inspections, PMs and Priority assignment.
• Ensure all planning functions are completed prior to the assignment of Planned status on an order i.e.. operation steps, labor assignment and estimated work, components and procured services, work instructions and other supporting documentation, JSERA, system condition, maintenance activity type, execution dependencies and relationships (must start, must finish etc.), and total planned costs.
• Identify opportunities for detailed scoping and planning that require further input from maintenance technicians and engineering teams.
• Leverage knowledge and expertise within the Mechanical and Electrical workshop for the development of Risk assessments

• Identify required changes to site Master Data and Documentation systems and assist in their implementation through the Emirates Steel Management of Change systems.
• Measure performance and strategy effectiveness through the site planning metrics.
• Assist with long term budget development and preparation, leveraging PM Task lists details
• Implement and manage plant reliability with an emphasis on preventative/predictive maintenance using best practices from within Emirates Steel and other industries.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities

• Any aspect not the core of the job but might be requested

Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities (attributes) required

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required.

• Adequate craft knowledge and skill to accurately estimate labor hours, material requirement and skills needed to complete a job
• Demonstrated organizational and planning skills
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of maintenance processes and proper use of the work management system, planning and scheduling

Minimum Education Qualifications (Must Haves)      Any preferred professional training (Nice to have)

Professional Experience (Must haves)                        Previous Experience/exposure Recommendations (Nice to have)

Key Performance Indicators

• Compliance to Safety Targets as per emirates steel directive
• Standard Maintenance and Shutdown works management KPI including but not limited to:
• Work pack preparation compliance
• Maintenance Shutdown Backlog
• Executability and execution of work
• Readiness of spares for shutdowns
• Notification Backlog
• Schedule compliance/Attainment
• Spares availability and correctness